This is truly everything! https://t.co/ZYHF8f5ALI
— Phoebe Maltz Bovy 🐩 (@BovyMaltz) March 27, 2023
So oddball. A lot of this just boils down to simple jealousy and envy, really. It’s pretty obvious when you read closely.
Month: March 2023
Many Times
Clean energy critics often argue that addressing climate change will require too much mining.
So I looked into the data.
I found that our current fossil fuel economy requires 535x more mining than a 100% clean energy economy would.
🧵
— Michael Thomas (@curious_founder) March 29, 2023
That’s about what I’d calculated too. I thought it’d be around 700x as much mining, which was not bad for the five minutes I spent on it a few months ago.
Least Nude
I sent a female friend of mine this text earlier:
“Send me a photo of you when you can. The least nude photo you have (most clothes possible). I want to see nothing”
She sent back, “I mean this in the best possible way, but you are the weirdest guy I have EVER met. And that’s exactly why we’re friends”
Unconstrained
There are too many people who don’t seem to realize that when you become an adult, you can do whatever the fuck you want. You really can. You’re less constrained than you think. If you are willing to accept the possible consequences, you really can…just do stuff.
Already Nuking
Better not tell the realists or they will say it provides an excuse for a Russian invasion https://t.co/NdAGqLRXZN
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) March 30, 2023
Ian Welsh is probably already writing some shit about how Russia must nuke Finland now before it’s too late.
Av
Home prices and wages pic.twitter.com/AjhbJBbXSO
— lines down (@lines_down) March 30, 2023
Yeah, sure, it’s the avocado toast.
Carom
They told him, "Don't you ever come around here"
"There's no holes on the tables, they just disappear"
The fire's in their eyes and their words are really clear
They're billiards, just billiards https://t.co/UIXdbDJqBP— Jason Scott (@textfiles) March 28, 2023
Those are carom billiards tables. That’s not a mistake. Where y’all been at?
My Own
it is such a bizarre anthropological phenomenon https://t.co/ITfsDIAAvW
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) March 30, 2023
It is damn weird. They are little pissbaby cowards.
I like to identify who is doing concealed carry in public (usually easy to tell) so that I know who to take a gun from if I need one. That way I don’t have to carry my own!
Really Never
🚨Judge Reed O'Connor STRIKES DOWN a major provision of the Affordable Care Act requiring insurers to cover a vast amount of preventive care cost-free (contraception, cancer screening, PrEP, a ton of pregnancy-related care). The ruling applies nationwide. https://t.co/wL26vkIPsd
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) March 30, 2023
Hey another one of those things I was told “could never happen….” FUNNY THAT KEEPS HAPPENING
No Ifs Ands or Bots
The gender binary is a social system that divides human beings into two buckets based on their expected reproductive capacity, dictates how those two buckets ought to behave, and delivers consequences if they don't.
This system is bullshit and makes a most people miserable. >— Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) March 30, 2023
Agreed — and yet a lot of y’all, including Laurie Penny in the past, portray all men as sex-crazed robot default rapists. Seems a little unfair, doesn’t it? Even if it is true of some men.
Try ID
You’ll Soon Need to Show ID to Watch Porn Online.
Bad headline. “Porn” and “protecting the children” is always the first effort made when the goal is really something else. A better headline would be: “You’ll Soon Need to Show ID to Do Anything Online.”
Also, VPNs will be made illegal. This has been long-desired by many but it’s on the way too, guaranteed.
Pairody
Idea for a dating service for liberals: You are only allowed to date people born on exactly the same year and day as you. Twice a year, all singles born on a certain year and day meet in a city and pair off.
Surely this would eliminate (already mostly bullshit) power imbalances completely!
Thirty
Less than 30 seconds.
Agee
AITB for cutting my friend off for dating a 19 year old at 25?
LOL WUT. I just do not understand why so many people seem to think people with relatively-minor age differences are completely different species. No, I did not date or attempt to date any of them, but I had plenty in common with the 20ish-year-old interns at a previous job — more in fact than I did with co-workers my own age. Because I don’t like golf, don’t like to talk about my mortgage or my (non-existent) health problems, etc. And am up on contemporary music, culture, and the like. I had absolute tons more in common with the intern I was mentoring than the 40- and 50-year-old dudes sitting on either side of me. We basically had nothing to share at all except we were close to the same age. Nothing at all.
In this case it’s obviously just extreme jealousy that the dude chose not to date her. As is often — perhaps most often — the case.
Contra Contra
The current Republican political strategy is to use trans people as a means to overturn the civil rights act of 1964 on the grounds of religious freedom.
They’re not aiming for bostock, and trans people aren’t their main target.
They’re trying to bring back segregation.
— stacy 🏳️⚧️ (@StacyCaySlays) March 29, 2023
Agreed.
And even though we were called “insane” for saying it at the time by bien pensant pseudo-liberals, the main point of banning abortion was to attack and then eliminate contraception and to roll back women’s freedom in the sexual and other realms.